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CVE Reference: CVE-2009-4141
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2009-4141

Description:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the fasync_helper function in fs/fcntl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4-git1 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors that include enabling O_ASYNC (aka FASYNC or FIOASYNC) on a locked file, and then closing this file.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00002.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA38199
  Secunia Advisory: SA39033

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0161.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7054
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9201

MISC
  http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/7744108017
  http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69/create_elf_tables.c

FULLDISC
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0252.html

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.33-rc4-git1.bz2
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=53281b6d34d44308372d16acb7fb5327609f68b6

BID
  37806


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